Don't Let Your Spirit Become Hard As A Rock
Wake up.
Find the will power to do what needs to be done.
This will continue until we die.
We can not be perfect at this, but we can be excellent.
When A Friend Asks Advice
May 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Public Parks Are Designed To Help You
Ever have a friend who asks you for your advice?
I mean, over and over again? Gets old doesn’t it?
What they should do, health-wise, is so painfully obvious.
They know it. You know it. Even a young child knows it.
To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know. To my friend from yesterday, who’ll probably never read this, and to anyone else in denial – figure it out.
What’s Your Pathetic Excuse?
April 14, 2010 by 4 Comments
Need One Of These For Your Pile Of Excuses?
You should know, in case you don’t, I respond to every single comment and email you send. Yesterday’s Lane 8 post had a comment from occasional Guest Blogger, Skip.
Here’s the reply I just wrote, it feels post-worthy:
What if, instead of your outward appearance, you thought of your “comeback” in terms of showing your daughters that getting older doesn’t mean we have to compromise an active, healthy lifestyle?
That getting older isn’t a jail sentence to ill-health.
Do you want your daughters and your grandchildren to be unhealthy when they get older?
What will motivate them to “break the cycle” and be the change, if you can’t, or won’t, do it?
The Key To Health
February 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
He's Counting On A Role Model (for life)
Ever struggle with your motivation to exercise or with making smart food choices?
(If you said no, you’re lying)
Yesterday while at Gold’s Gym Orlando, I asked one of the staff, “What is it that makes some people commit to exercise for a lifetime and others quit after a few weeks?”
What do you think? How would you answer it?
I suggested that we can not do it for ourselves, we must do it for someone else. If we fail, we only let ourselves down. But if we do it for someone else and we fail, we let them down.
The other person challenged my rational (which is exciting), and in the speed of the day, neither one of us, in this casual conversation, really had a desire to debate this further at that moment.
Yet on the drive home, what I had been trying to say was revealed. We need to be a role model for great health habits. This is the secret that eludes people.
You must be someone’s role model, for life. This means you can not fail. There is no greater motivation.
If this is flying over your head, you’re at huge risk to miss this simple, but compelling health secret.
Lane 8 Patience Is Genius
October 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience”. — Gerorges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Isn’t it amazing how impatient we can be? It certainly is to me. Whenever I start to think patience has been mastered, another unexpected test comes along. One that tests my patience in new ways.
And these tests come out of nowhere. And many times, from extremely innocent surroundings, when we least expect it.
“You can not teach patience with impatience”. — jeff noel
You will never succeed at overcoming your wellness challenges if you are impatient. This is one of the fundamental laws of self improvement. One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever had to learn.
